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7 Application filed 'June' 5,

Toall'whomz'tmay con-0cm; I v 1 be it known that I, EUGENE W. HawLnY, acitizen of the United States, I'GSlCilIlg at ,Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and

State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew "-llil useful Improvement in WVa-rdrobe Trunkaof which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being ihad to the accompanying drawings, which.

form-a part this specification.-' 7

My invention relates to an improvement in wardrobe trunks and in particular to means whereby the contents of the hanger or clothes compartment may be secured against theft.

VJardrobe trunks are usually constructed" oorted at its ends by brackets on the sides of r i the compartment and adapted to confine or a. press together the lower portion of garments harried by the hangers.

When the trunk is opened, by separating,

the body sections, the drawer and clothes compartments are exposed and access thereto may be readily had unless the body sec tions be again brought togetherand locked.

In order to permit of persons leaving their trunks open, in hotels for example. without risk of losing articles of value by theft, a variety of devices have been perfected foilocking the drawers in the drawer compartment so that they cannot be opened eventhough the trunk be open.

Although care has'been taken to provide 'means for locking the drawers in a wardrobe trunk, so that the trunk body may be left open with security against theft, no means have as yet been PTOVIC BCl for securing the garments in the clothes compartment, and

it has frequently been the experience of travellers, where they have left their trunks open, that garments have been removed from the clothes compartments. In the present type of trunk, if it be left open, the garments may be so readily removed that they serve as a temptation to theft, by that class of thief which would not force a lock or leave positive evidence of his act by damaging the trunk itself.

Now the object of my invention is to provide means whereby the follower or press may be securely locked to the body of the .1322. Serial 556,042;

trunk and prei 'ent'the unauthorized removal of garments from-the ciothesc pa nent. ,Having now, 1n a general indicated the nature; purpose and.

anta'ges'l" of 1nvent1on. i

'2 will proceed to descr be a prethe accompanyin drawings, in whichlessen 1 ferred embodiment thereof with reference to Fig. leis a perspective view of a wardrobe trunkiin' open positionand embodying my invention. i

'Fig. 2 is across-sectional view of clothes compartment of the trnnlr shown. in Fig; 1. i i

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional. view of the the U clothes compartment of the trunk shown in Fig.1. i r i -Fig. dis an enlarged fragmentary view partly in section, showing a detail of invention. i i Fig.

ar support brackets, looking the t-line-5-5 4c. 7 Fig. 6 i

other follower bar support bracket, looking in the direction of lines 6+6 Fig.4:

Thetrunl: comprises a section A in which is a tier of drawers 0, and a section to the section A alone; the edge and provided with ya hinged top a. The front ed es of the section B be reinforced by strips ,,'and the'edges of the se'ctio 13, ad apt-e to be brought together trr "k is closed, are irovided with he no means, not shown. 'The-conipart- L B may contain a shoebox: u as shown men Suitably mounted within tl'iescction B at be secured to the trunk. Theb aclret g,

which is position d opposite to bracket formed with a raised body portion provided with iergually spaced slots k open at their lower e nds,and equally spaced closed slots Z, relatively spaced from slots r I is a fragmentary View of oneof the a fragmentary view showingthe.

l5 hinged 1' paced below the rods (land se The follower bar it has ends m, m and 1s provided adjacent its end m" with alock n, the bolt 0 of which is adapted, when in looking position, to extend behind and parallel to end m. The bar it is placed in position by first inserting the end on in one of the closed slots z of bracket f and then inserting the end 772/ upwardly into one of the open slots 70 in bracket 9. If the reinforcing strips Z) are used, the strip adjacent the bracket 9 is cut out as at p for the passage of the end of bar it.

lVhen the bar is in position with its ends mand m in slots 2' and 7:, respectively, the bar may be locked in position by means of lock mthe bolt 0 of which is extended into one of the closed slots Z- by means of a key 2.

It will now be observed that the bar it is irremovably held in the brackets f and 9 since the lock bolt 0 prevents the end m from dropping down out. of'slot 7c. The garments carried by the hangers 6 cannot be removed therefrom, it before locking the bar it in po sition it be iorced back against the clothes so as to secure them tightly against the back of the compartment.

If desired, my invention may be applied to a more complete fo lower, such as illustrated, comprising an apron 57 secured at one end to the back of the compartment B and extending over the hangers e to a point in the lower portion of the compartment, the apron 9 having secured to it a bar 7, connected to bar it by means of springs s. The bar 7:, when looked as above described, will not only directly tend to prevent the removal of garments from compartment B, but will cause the apron to act likewise.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a wardrobe trunk comprising sections hinged together, one of which provides a compartment for gar-' ments, or hangers for the support of garments in said compartment, a follower,

means providing a multiplicity of elements along a side wall of the compartment and adapted to be engaged by and position the follower, at different distances from the rear wall of the compartment, a lockingmember carried by the follower, and a multiplicity of complei'nentary locking elements along a side wall of the compartment so located as to be respectively engageable by said locking member in diiterent positions of the follower.

The combination with a wardrobe trunk comprising sections hinged together, one of which provides a compartment for -garments, of hangers for the support of garments in sa d compartment, brackets on opposite side walls of the compartment, a follower adaoted to extend across the compart- 1 i ment, each of said brackets having a multiplicity of tollower-en agmg and positioning elements, a locking member carried by the follower, and a multiplicity of complementary elements carried by one of the brackets and so positioned thatone of them is engageable by said locking member after the tollower is engaged with and positioned on the brackets.

3. The combination with a wardrobe trunk comprisingsections hinged together, one of which prov des a compartment for garments, of hangers for the support of garments'in said compartment, a i'ollo er bar adapted to extend across the compartment, brackets, on oppositeside walls of the conipartment, each having a series of orifices with which the corresponding end of the follower bar is adapted for engagement and thereby positioned, one of said brackets having a second series of orifices, and a keycontrolled locking bolt carried by the follower bar and adapted, when the follower bar is so positioned relatively to said brackets, to align with one of the said second" series of orifices, whereby, when the trunk,

lower bar one end of which is adapted to be inserted in one 0'! the closed slots of the first bar and the other of which is adapted to swing into engagement with the open-ended slots of the second lar, whereby the follower bar is positioned and thegarments may be held compressed toward the rear wall of the compartment, and a'keycontrolled locking bolt carried by the follower bar and adapted, after the follower is so positioned, to be moved into engagement with one of the closed slots of the second bar, thereby locking the garments from ready removal when the trunk is open.

In testimony of which invention, I have hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia, Pa, on this 29th day of May, 1922.

EUGENE V. HAWLEY '95 at one end and a series of closed slots, a fol- 

